Necessary
Necessary adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.
Primary and necessary are semantically related In some cases you can use "Primary" instead an adjective "Necessary".
Nearby Words: necessity, necessarily
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- prime and necessary
- prime and primary
- capital and necessary
- capital and primary
- principal and necessary
- principal and primary
- main and necessary
- main and primary
- important and necessary
- important and primary
- essential and necessary
- essential and primary
- indispensable and necessary
- indispensable and primary
Both words in one sentence
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Homestuck has innumerable offshoot timelines which all create elements necessary for the existence of the primary timeline.
Source: For Want of a Nail - But when they were necessary, the primary consideration when choosing one was on stat bonuses rather than melee damage.
Source: Emergency Weapon -
Not helping this was that several were almost necessary to do well at a class, such as the Infiltrator's default primary being pretty much terrible.
Source: Video Game / Tribes
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